No idea if true....and I am not defending Arry at all.
But I have read that the three Brentford players( including Jota) signed by Brum were signed over his head, and he never wanted them.
He said exactly the same at Rs.
I have just finished the Joey Barton autobiography. Most of it is so pseudointellectual head stuck up his own...... stuff.
But there are two chapters on his time with us.... although "obviously" he was the driving force behind us winning the playoffs...he does say things about Arry I am willing to take as true.
He was never bothered with training, that was left to others, he took a back seat on tactics. To talk to him you had to get past Jamie Redknapp, who was always hanging around.
When we hit that bad run of form that took us out of the automatics and threatened our top6 position, he fell apart and it was player power (Barton of course, Hill, Simpson and Green) that sorted it out.
Barton has not a decent word to say about Arry, which makes me like Barton just a tiny bit!
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